So this was an incredibly close contest—5 to 4 to 3, if we can trust the counting-up we just did on our fingers—but the winner is: Sabrina! It earned our vote as well. This is actually far from the most fashionable moment, but we love it. We totally want to go to this egg-cracking school, by the way.
We are just wondering if you have seen our extensive array of YouTube clips! and done your American duty and voted!
No more exclamation points but: our Most Fashionable Film contest requires a winner. Vote now! (Last one.)
Can we just say, whenever we think Hilary Clinton is going to lose, we want to cry a little bit, and whenever we think Barack Obama is going to lose, we want to cry a little bit. Why can we just not meld them into one experienced, change-loving candidate? And how bizarre is it, the momentum-altering thing Tina Fey did? We find ourselves talking about Saturday Night Live quite a bit these days.
Anyhoo, speaking of voting! We've completely come apart on our contest for the most fashionable film. Please, to be voting for your favorite. We reveal that we led with our choice.
1. Sabrina
1a. Secretary
2. In the Mood for Love
3. The Palm Beach Story
4. Roman Holiday
5. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
We totally forgot our fashion film contest! Argh. The winner will receive: the movie, plus a special addition, which we will unveil at the end of the week.
Today's nominee, courtesy of uahmed (we went with the first comment nomination):
I have to say Secretary with Maggie Gyllenhaal. Her blouses and skirts were crazy sexy in a conservative way (she made it possible).
Totally true. This is actually our sort of favorite at the moment.
Here is a clip from the opening. Man, this movie is bizarre, but it is also incredibly awesome.
So we have coveted this sleep mask since the first time we saw Breakfast at Tiffany's, but we could never find precisely the right thing. Then we saw these on Fred Flare, aptly labeled the Holly Golightly sleep mask. But we were all, "What's up with the fake eyelashes and gold trim?"
So then we were wondering how PhotoShopped the Audrey picture was, and checked our earlier commentary (with the photo above). We were wrong, obvs. This reminds us of that part in American Pastoral where the Swede finds out his wife always hated the house they live in ... only a bit less melodramatic. In any case: We might still need to get out the glue gun, as those lashes look a bit thick to us. No?
So because we love our fellow fashion blog community, and because we love few things more than a fair swap, we're dedicating some posts to our neighbors who were so nice to do the same thing for us. Today, we talked to our blogosphere buddy Fashion Kitty of Ask Fashion Kitty about her favorite moment in fashionable film. There is more alliteration in that sentence than we would have ever thought possible. Anyway:
Bunnyshop: Do you have an all-time favorite fashion moment from a film?Fashion Kitty: Sure, I could take the easy and more fashionable way out and choose Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's rocking a little black dress. Or I could even go with Anne Hathaway’s transformation in the Devil Wears Prada (those Chanel boots were amazing.) But my favorite fashion moment in a movie has to go to Mean Girls. The wardrobe in Mean Girls wasn't anything to write home about, but when Karen said "We wear pink on Wednesdays" and Cady didn't have anything pink and was forced to borrow Damien's pink polo shirt ... that was just priceless. And for anyone who has watched Mean Girls 10,000 times will appreciate this quote: "I WANT MY PINK SHIRT BACK! I WANT MY PINK SHIRT BACK!"
Dear Fashion Kitty: Homecoming Woes, because Homecoming can be stressful;
Eyebrow Waxing at Benefit, because more than these freaks us out we want to try it;
Discussion of an instructional smokey-eye video, because more than even, say, French or physics, we need to learn how to do this.
We went and saw Belle de Jour last night at the National Film Theatre, which was so exciting because we have always considered ourselves a little too downmarket for movie theaters with assigned seating. What we noticed first was the way Catherine Deneuve always went to bed (and, as you might suspect, she goes to bed a lot) wearing full make-up. (See above.)
Also, the brothel madame played by Genevieve Page had (a) an amazing green dress, and (b) amazing flip-up eyeliner that we totally covet.
And also: We have thought this coat was ugly from the first time we spied its hideousness, but CD wears a coat much like it (designed by Yves Saint Laurent) and this is super similar. It is makes us think this might not be terrible. Shiny nightmare that it is. McQ PVC coat, was $688, now $419
We are convinced the jewelry Anne Hathaway's wearing below is Me & Ro, though we have no proof of it here. This is sort of it, isn't it? M&R "Tibetan Amulet with Indian Diamonds in 18 Karat Gold," $1,820. Can't afford that one, either.
And then this: First: Me & Ro "Indian Diamond Bombay Moon & Star Necklace in 18kt Gold," $1,755. Tss.
Devil Wears Prada on DVD: not exactly the crowning moment of the fall fashion season. Still. We were buying a hot dog today after yoga—and really, we have absolutely no fucking idea why we thought that would be a good idea, it's like, hot dog what?—and that horrible movie Just Like Heaven was on, and it took so long for our hot dog to get ready that we watched just enough of it to be annoyingly curious about how it ends. Sort of. Not really. We have the same sort of mixed feelings about this. We have, indeed, worked at a fashion magazine in New York, and from what we understand, our experience was similar to Anne Hathaway's except (a) nobody read our magazine and (b) we didn't get to experience the post-makeover part of it.
Anyway. The fashion was certainly, in some ways, interesting, and worth taking a look at. We just totally do not get Meryl Streep's hair in this. Honestly. Anna Wintour must have been puking into one of those tiny bags of hers. Also: Love the red lips, but the red in the hair is sort of freaking us out. Also: gloves? Really?
What is the netting on the sleeves? And what is up with that bag? It totally looks like one of those little leather bags you get at those highway stands in Arizona.
This big-lapels-and-collar thing: love it. This was our favorite. Also: bangs! Love bangs. Have committed ourselves to bangs. However: Miranda's red belt. It's just too black-and-white-and-red-accent for us, really.
Not into that shirt (er, to be clear, it's the top half of a Calvin Klein dress) but absolutely love that necklace.
We know this is post-makeover but this outfit we just totally do not get.
This is our other favorite look. Love brown + black, or maybe, in this case, brown + charcoal.
This just looks like Jackie O.-lite to us. And we don't get the leopard.
Honestly we sort of love Patricia Field's outfit here more than any of the others. Except the ones with the giant cuffs. Looove that gray and pink tube top.
Can we quite wrap our heads around the phrase "Oscar nominee Sienna Miller"? Oh, no, we cannot. We surely cannot. And so, we figured it was time for some head-soothing looks at the real-deal Edie Sedgwick, pre-Sienna-fied update.
This makes us want to go out and buy black tights immediately, and then never wear anything else. Hmm. We may very well attempt this tomorrow.
This is the sentence that made us like her, or at least the idea of her, from the NY Post: "'A lot of the battle with her family was fought over finances. Her point was, 'I'm not getting enough money from you? Fine. I'm not going to wear any pants.'"
And we've always like blonde hair and big, dark eyebrows, it's the gutter girl in us:
Big eyes, stripes, big earrings. This is achievable. Minus the barbituates overdose, and we are good to go. (Sienna version.)
We're thinking of this as a final post-horrible-Gap-ads mouthwash. Because we never want to think about them again. Luckily, Audrey lives on—especially in Breakfast at Tiffany's. We have no idea what this= movie is about, but we know we like the clothes. Even above, this image is so ... familiar that we're kind of like, ergh, we get it, big sunglasses, pearls, black dress and gloves, etc., and yet even for being so familiar it's still really quite lovely. No?
Take away lesson: Over-the-top eye pads much more desirable than previously thought. We have, however, always wanted an orange cat.
Take away lesson: Togas entirely acceptable evening wear. Suddenly we feel like some Sophia Kokosalaki.
Well, we're not into smoking. But: Take away lesson: Big necklace makes boring dress suddenly interesting.
Take away lesson: Head scarf! Trench coat! All very chic international spy!
Take away lesson: Tiaras. Crowns. Etc. Shiny things on head: nearly always a good thing. Not always, but nearly.
"So this man who want to put a rubber fist in my anus, he is a homosexual?"
Honestly. We are immune to the backlash. Borot is awesome. All through the movie, we would lean over to our friend Courtney and go, "Do you think Sacha Baron Cohen really loves Isla Fischer?" and "Sacha Baron Cohen is really smart" and "Sacha Baron Cohen probably has a nice British accent, really" and "Did you know Sacha Baron Cohen did his university thesis on the contribution by Jewish activists to the American civil rights movement?"
Courtney, you will expect, really enjoyed this, and continued to ignore us as we went home and did a little stalker-Google search to see if SBC and IF were still engaged. They are. We also found, however, and this made everything quite all right, a photo of Isla Fischer wearing a very nice purple dress.
Love this, love her boobs. Really, if Sacha Baron Cohen is going to marry someone who is not us, we can live with Isla.
We were even more cheered when we find this very similar dress in the new Lucky, from Vivienne Tam. Not available yet, but if you like it as much as we do, Lucky says to call 212-966-2398. That's a velvet-trim duchesse satin dress, $530. Sorry we can't link to it.
As a sort of palate-cleansing, post-Gap-ad sorbet, we rented Sabrina, looking to somehow de-burn the image of Gap-Audrey from our eyes and replace it with nicer, less ... what is the word we want? Horrifying? Sacrilegious? Whatever. And these are our favorite fashion moments from Sabrina. We've been meaning to do this forever. We thank the Gap for giving us the motivation.
Above: Audrey in, we believe, behind-the-scenes photo. High-waisted shorts + collar-up plaid button-down shirt = v. 2007 Nantucket in-a-good-way, no?
It's glamour Audrey! Straight off the plane-train from Paris. That is what we all need to do: Move to a foreign country for two years, and come back all sleek 'n' chic. This is better than coming back as a hippie.
And check out that dress: It's a pretty boring column (with the nice detailing) and then there's that humungous ... bustle, or whatever it is, around it. We're betting it snaps on and off. Detachable couture, etc.
Here's a closer look a the detailing.
Love this dress. And how it looks like that scarf is a little cat mask from this distance.
Need to buy a plaid shirt, stat.
And then this is sort of the least exciting of all the pictures, but as it's time for winter coat shopping ... oversized collars! Hurrah!
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